Sam Gare

Contemporary wilderness painter Sam Gare who has just recently started calling Scotland home, originally hailing from London – though she always felt Scotland was a home for her.

Her work explores the wild, vast and lonely lands that remain untouched and untamed by man. Through her art she aims to share the positive power of nature on the human spirit and soul ultimately inspiring people to reconnect to nature, protect and respect the wilderness.

Driven by her a life long passion for nature (she is an ambassador for the Wilderness Foundation UK) Sam frequently travels to extreme and immense natural environments around the globe to inform her work, creating both in the studio and outdoors in the field.

Sam is a self-taught artist who perfectly links her art to her love of the wild. Working with a multitude of media; pens, acrylic paint pens, paints, pastels, markers, gold leaf. She gently marks up her base layer with acrylic markers and pens, working intuitively, relying on photos and memories of a location. She works into the sky with pastels, capturing the light and building space around the lands. Sam is focused on capturing the movement, feel and freedom found in these wild and vast environments.